Freeview changes

[Media Boy UK]

This week changes on Freeview:

Wednesday:
*GREAT Movies action becomes GREAT action on Freeview Ch 42 (Not in Wales)
*That’s 60s moves from Ch 75 to Ch 71^
*That’s 70s moves from Ch 76 to Ch 75^
*That’s 80s moves from Ch 77 to Ch 76^
*That’s 60s moves from Ch 87 to Ch 77^^
*That’s 90s becomes That's 70s on Ch 80^^
*That’s 80s moves from Ch 88 to Ch 86^^
*BBC One HD becomes BBC One East Midlands HD on Ch 101^^^
*BBC One HD becomes BBC One West Midlands HD on Ch 101^^^
*BBC One HD becomes BBC One East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire HD on Ch 101^^^
*BBC One HD becomes BBC One Yorkshire HD on Ch 101^^^
*BBC One HD becomes BBC One London HD on Ch 101^^^
*BBC One HD becomes BBC One Channel Islands HD on Ch 101^^^

^UK wide
^^Manchester only
^^^Local areas only

Also Two new streaming channels to launch:
*Al Jazeera English to launch on Channel 285
*Al Jazeera to launch on Channel 286

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Viewers in North East & Cumbria, North West, West, South West, South, East and South East parts of England will get their local news in HD on Freeview by April 27th*

*This date may change.

https://rxtvinfo.com/2023/regional-b...in-two-phases/

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More Changes set to happen on Wednesday:

*TV Warehouse moves from Ch 90 to Ch 87^^
*TV Warehouse +1 moves from Ch 91 to Ch 88^^
*WION News to launch on Channel 287

Rumour: Is Al Jazeera English set to close soon on Freeview Channel 235?

[Media Boy UK]

That's 70s has today launch as a parttime Channel UK wide on Channel 75.

That's 70s (Channel 75) is timesharing with That's 60s (Channel 71) on the following times:

9am - That's 60s
3am - That's 70s

[epsilon]

Originally Posted by epsilon

Although the old TSIDs are still being used, some with the same ID are carrying different data, so the multiplexes have been split. Maybe Wednesday's changes will also involve renumbering the TSIDs. When the new TSIDs are known, it will be a good indication of how well the new infrastructure will allow for the correct ITV 1 HD regions to be added at a later stage.

The London region will now out of sync with the BBC house style for SID numbering. The SID currently used for the England-wide BBC ONE HD service has been 17540 which, following BBC house style, should be the SID number for a London regional service. It appears that the new regional service for London has now been issued with SID 17536 - under the BBC house style, that would be the SID number for a UK wide service. SID 17599 would have been the correct number for an England-wide service. It will be interesting to see if this anomaly is corrected but it is, by no means, critical.

Wednesday's changes should be quite revealing.

A little late to get back to this but the TSIDs did, indeed, change. From the information available the numbering has followed the BBC house style. Still no information about TSID numbering for the sub-regions (Sheffield, Gloucestershire, Shropshire etc). The DBR scanner used for west midlands areas seems to have inconveniently gone offline just before the changes. That info should be an indication of how well prepared the new infrastructure is for adding the correct ITV regions. London kept the correct TSID region with BBC ONE HD taking the UK-wide default number for the SID. Unavoidable, I suppose, as the London default number is still being used for the red screen version in areas still awaiting conversion. It would probably have been better to convert London in the last batch but the changes seem to have concentrated on getting the more densely populated areas of England converted first.

[cheekyangus]

Thanks epsilon.

[epsilon]

Shropshire still hasn't been updated (on DBR) but Gloucestershire is using the West Midlands TSID, so BBC B hasn't been subdivided in the same way as BBC A. It would be nice to know what is being used in Sheffield (as it would take a different version of ITV) but, since Sheffield & Bilsdale became co-channel, both are now difficult to check.

[Media Boy UK]

BBC Considers U-Turn On Closing BBC FOUR HD

https://deadline.com/2023/03/bbc-con...rn-1235314448/